95PU3: Maysvillian, Tennessee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
1 individual
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Parvohallopora sp. Singh 1979
2 individuals
Stenolaemata - Cystoporata - Constellariidae
Constellaria sp. Dana 1846
8 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Tennessee
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 87.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.7° South, 119.0° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
Stage: Katian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 5
*Epoch:Ashgill
*Local age/stage:Maysvillian
Key time interval: Maysvillian
Age range of interval: 450.4 - 449.8 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Leipers
Local section:Pulaski
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Note sequence designation corrected from Fig. 1, Patzkowsky and Holland, 1999
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous packstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:1930
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-11 11:00:18 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:14
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
46. M. E. Patzkowsky and S. M. Holland. 1999. Biofacies Replacement in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Nashville Dome, Tennessee, USA. Palaios 14(4):301-317 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]